Study: Care and belonging help children overcome childhood adversity

Why do certain children thrive later in life despite childhood adversity? That is the focus of one of the longest studies of childhood development ever conducted. Psychologists have been following almost 700 children in various risk groups in Hawaii since 1955. They have found that three factors determine why children did well despite being “high risk” (born into poverty, perinatal stress, domestic violence, parental alcoholism). The resilience of the children was a result of their temperament, having someone who was consistently caring, and having a sense of belonging to a wider group.   READ MORE